{"id":5546,"date":"2011-05-01T09:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T09:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/01\/links-for-2011-05-01\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T09:08:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T09:08:41","slug":"links-for-2011-05-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/01\/links-for-2011-05-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-05-01"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/highclearing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2011\/04\/29\/12854\">Acculturating students to science \u00c2\u00a7 Unqualified Offerings<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;A student with a very enthusiastic yet serious demeanor, and very responsible habits, recently asked if he could work in my research group.&nbsp; He has few relevant skills at this point, and my crew is pretty full, but I want to help him, so we&#8217;re applying for some programs that support undergrads in research.&nbsp; He isn&#8217;t a physics major, but he has broad interests, and I think we need more people like him.<\/p>\n<p>In the process of reading drafts of his application essays, he sounded incredibly naive, and his writing skills could stand considerable improvement, so I began to despair.&nbsp; But somebody took me on when I was a kid who didn&#8217;t know squat, so I have a favor to return.&nbsp; In reading his naive statements, I started to think about what I actually got from undergraduate research.&nbsp; I was working in a space science lab, helping build an instrument.&nbsp; Now I do theoretical optics applied to biology.&nbsp; Not much connection there.&nbsp; So, what did I get?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/unqualified-offerings\">unqualified-offerings<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/these-charts-explain-the-real-death-of-the-music-industry-2011-2\">The REAL Death Of The Music Industry<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;So let&#8217;s correct the inaccurate conclusions one might reasonably draw from the misleading Bain chart:<br \/>\nWrong: The music industry is down around 40% from its peak in 1999<br \/>\nCorrect: The music industry is down 64% from its peak.<br \/>\nWrong: At least the music industry is almost 4 times better off than in 1973.<br \/>\nCorrect: The music industry is actually down 45% from where it was in 1973.<br \/>\nWrong: The CD era was the aberration. (Mr. Gruber&#8217;s reasonable take)<br \/>\nCorrect: The CD peak was only 13% better than the vinyl peak, not over 250% better as the Bain chart implies.<br \/>\nThe overall conclusion is that the music industry is actually doing much worse than the Bain chart implies:<br \/>\n10 years ago the average American spent almost 3 times as much on recorded music products as they do today.<br \/>\n26 years ago they spent almost twice as much as they do today.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/music\">music<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/presentations\">presentations<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/slacktivist\/2011\/04\/30\/lawnmowers-and-40-nachos\/\">Lawnmowers and $40 nachos | slacktivist<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve experienced this. More than once. You&#8217;re at a restaurant with a large party of friends or co-workers or castmembers or &#8212; riskiest of all &#8212; people from church, and everybody is on one tab. The bill gets passed around the table and the money gets piled up in the middle and you wind up $20 short &#8212; not to mention the tip. &#8220;Who didn&#8217;t put in?&#8221; No one says anything. Everyone insists they paid more than enough for their share, with plenty of extra for the tip, but you&#8217;re $20 short, so somebody is lying. More than one somebody, probably. But since no one fesses up, you end up tossing in way more than you should have had to and those $5.99 nachos wind up costing you $40.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the sort of experience that makes it seem easier and even cheaper to just buy your own lawnmower.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acculturating students to science \u00c2\u00a7 Unqualified Offerings &#8220;A student with a very enthusiastic yet serious demeanor, and very responsible habits, recently asked if he could work in my research group.&nbsp; He has few relevant skills at this point, and my crew is pretty full, but I want to help him, so we&#8217;re applying for some&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/01\/links-for-2011-05-01\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-05-01<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}